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This review examines the literature available on the state of the environment and
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Since the first nuclear weapons tests in the 1940s, pulsed inputs of plutonium isotopes have
served as excellent tracers for understanding sources, pathways, dynamics and the fate of …

Following atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s significant
quantities of 137Cs and 239+ 240Pu were deposited worldwide. In recent decades, 137Cs …

This accessible and engagingly written book describes how national and international
scientific monitoring programmes brought to light our present understanding of Arctic …

Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) is presently the most sensitive technique for the
measurement of actinides with half-lives greater than about 5000 years. Here, the principles …

To obtain information on physicochemical forms of radionuclides in the environment,
speciation techniques should be applied in situ, at-site or in laboratories shortly after sample …

Since 1945, a series of nuclear and radiological sources have contributed to the release of
radioactive particles containing refractory elements into the environment. Several years of …

Accelerator mass spectrometry with the 14UD accelerator at the Australian National
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Abstract The 240 Pu/239 Pu atom ratio is a very effective tool for the identification of the
origin of plutonium (Pu) in the soil environment. We examine a dataset of 240 Pu/239 Pu …